Films shot in Massachusetts

2006 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2010 film by David Fincher

Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 mockumentary black comedy film directed by Larry Charles, which stars Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh journalist traveling through the United States. Much of the film features unscripted vignettes of Borat interviewing and interacting with real-life Americans who believe he is a foreigner with little or no understanding of the local customs. A co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, Borat is the second of four films built around Baron Cohen's characters

2015 film directed by Tom McCarthy

2003 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2013 American film directed by David O. Russell

2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass

2022 film directed by Ryan Coogler

2009 film by Anne Fletcher

2021 film directed by Adam McKay

2010 film directed by David O. Russell

2019 film directed by Greta Gerwig

2003 film directed by Mike Newell

2014 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

2009 film directed by Alex Proyas

1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2004 adventure film directed by Brad Silberling

2021 film directed by Sian Heder

1966 film directed by Mike Nichols

2010 film by James Mangold

2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan

2016 film by Paul Feig

2015 film directed by David O. Russell

2010 film directed by Ben Affleck

2021 film directed by Shawn Levy

2010 film by Dennis Dugan

1993 film by Sydney Pollack

1989 film by Phil Alden Robinson

2007 film by Ben Affleck

1982 film by Sidney Lumet

2024 film directed by Tim Burton

2013 film directed by Paul Feig

2015 film by Scott Cooper

Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Kenny Ortega from a screenplay by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert, and a story by David Kirschner and Garris. It follows a villainous comedic trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night.

The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut. Set in 1970, it tells the story of a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students who have nowhere to go during the school's Christmas holiday break. Filming took place from January to March 2022 in Massachusetts. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023.

1987 film by George Miller

2009 film by Harald Zwart

2009 film by Mark Waters

2011 film by Frank Coraci

2013 film by Dennis Dugan

Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on the 2005–2006 comic book series The Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote-controlled robots). It also stars Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames.

1994 film by Curtis Hanson

2001 film by Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

2003 film by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

2018 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

1994 film directed by Christopher Cain

2000 film by Todd Phillips

2014 film by Jake Kasdan

2023 film directed by Bradley Cooper

2016 film by Peter Berg

2017 film directed by Sean Anders

2018 film by Sylvain White

2019 film directed by Darius Marder

1974 film by Jack Clayton

2001 live-action/animated film

2016 film directed by Ben Affleck

1992 film directed by Robert Mandel

1968 film by Norman Jewison

R.I.P.D.: Rest in Peace Department, or simply R.I.P.D., is a 2013 American supernatural action comedy film starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds. The film was directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi based on the 1999 comic book R.I.P.D. by Peter M. Lenkov and Lucas Marangon. The film also stars Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker, Stéphanie Szostak, and Marisa Miller.

1963 film by Otto Preminger